Devany, Chris, Formby, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8248-5368, Hoolachan, Jennifer and Mckee, Kim (2020) PPP Special Issue – Contemporary Youth: Precarity, Resistance and (Re)Imagined Futures. People, Place and Policy, 14 (2). pp. 85-89.

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Abstract

In recent years, the association between youth and precarity has become increasingly strengthened. Most commonly, youth precarity has been linked to the labour market (Shildrick et al., 2010; Crisp and Powell, 2017; Formby, 2017) and the housing market (McKee et al., 2020) although other social strata such as precarity of place (Banki, 2013) and precarious leisure (Batchelor et al., 2020) have also received attention. Deindustrialisation, forceful neoliberal politics, the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008, austerity measures and, most likely now, the social and economic costs of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated academic attention on young people with concern over how they are faring amid a complex web of unpredictable and insecure social structures and what consequences these will have for their futures.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.3351/ppp.2020.6752799995
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
School/Department:	York Business School
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4715

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